[sane-devel] using parallel port scanner as ordinary user in recent version of Fedora

2006-07-15 Thread Andre Robatino
Andre Robatino wrote: St?phane VOLTZ wrote: Le mardi 11 juillet 2006 01:36, Andre Robatino a ?crit : My father has a Umax Astra 2000P parallel port scanner. At present it's accessible only as root. Before the advent of udev, it was possible to access as an ordinary user by changing the

[sane-devel] using parallel port scanner as ordinary user in recent version of Fedora

2006-07-11 Thread Andre Robatino
My father has a Umax Astra 2000P parallel port scanner. At present it's accessible only as root. Before the advent of udev, it was possible to access as an ordinary user by changing the permission of /dev/parport0 from 660 to 666. Since udev appeared in Fedora 2, another solution is

[sane-devel] using parallel port scanner as ordinary user in recent version of Fedora

2006-07-11 Thread Stéphane VOLTZ
Le mardi 11 juillet 2006 01:36, Andre Robatino a ?crit?: My father has a Umax Astra 2000P parallel port scanner. At present it's accessible only as root. Before the advent of udev, it was possible to access as an ordinary user by changing the permission of /dev/parport0 from 660 to 666.

[sane-devel] using parallel port scanner as ordinary user in recent version of Fedora

2006-07-11 Thread Andre Robatino
St?phane VOLTZ wrote: Le mardi 11 juillet 2006 01:36, Andre Robatino a ?crit : My father has a Umax Astra 2000P parallel port scanner. At present it's accessible only as root. Before the advent of udev, it was possible to access as an ordinary user by changing the permission of

[sane-devel] using parallel port scanner as ordinary user in recent version of Fedora

2006-07-11 Thread m. allan noah
this is just a permissions problem? can you get the udev subsystem to set the mode of the parport file to something more permissive? allan On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Andre Robatino wrote: St?phane VOLTZ wrote: Le mardi 11 juillet 2006 01:36, Andre Robatino a ?crit : My father has a Umax

[sane-devel] using parallel port scanner as ordinary user in recent version of Fedora

2006-07-11 Thread m. allan noah
so add your father's account to group lp? allan On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Andre Robatino wrote: m. allan noah wrote: this is just a permissions problem? can you get the udev subsystem to set the mode of the parport file to something more permissive? It's definitely a permissions problem.